Spring has sprung!
Today is the vernal equinox - it's officially spring in the northern hemisphere, and autumn south of the equator.
My photo for the event shows two tendrils of <b>Wild Cucumber</b> (<i>Marah fabaceus</i>) in the <i>Cucurbitaceae</i> plant family - with flowers in the background - reaching out for a branch of native <b>Chamise</b> (<i>Adenostoma fasciculatum</i>) in the <i>Rosaceae</i> plant family. I wonder which tendril came first? (Santa Ynez Valley, 15 March 2010)
(My visual pun probably won't survive Google Translate!)
On March 20 2010
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![Tendrils of Wild Cucumber (Marah fabaceus) celebrate spring! - Spring has sprung!
Today is the [i]vernal equinox[/i] - it's officially spring in the northern hemisphere, and autumn south of the equator.
My photo for the event shows two tendrils of <b>[b]Wild Cucumber[/b]</b> (<i>[i]Marah fabaceus[/i]</i>) in the <i>[i]Cucurbitaceae[/i]</i> plant family - with flowers in the background - reaching out for a branch of native <b>[b]Chamise[/b]</b> (<i>[i]Adenostoma fasciculatum[/i]</i>) in the <i>[i]Rosaceae[/i]</i> plant family. I wonder which tendril came first? (Santa Ynez Valley, 15 March 2010)
(My visual pun probably won't survive Google Translate!) - Fotolog](http://sp2.fotolog.com/photo/34/26/39/treebeard/1269132532165_f.jpg)
